Linking pages without permalinks

  • Resolved doctorEQ

    (@doctoreq)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    Below, I will place a link to the instructions I found in the CODEX.

    I want to understand linking pages without using the permalink (which is so bothersome to Dreamweaver), yet I can’t understand the directions provided. Can someone help clear it up for me?

    My first problem is finding the “ID column of the Posts, Categories, and Pages”

    My second is knowing where to place these values. I want to make a button and have code for that, but, um, maybe that’s not intended.

    TIA

    doctorEQ

    Here are the Linking Without Using Permalinks instructions

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  • which is so bothersome to Dreamweaver

    I use Dreamweaver. What is so bothersome? A link is a link is a link :^)

    @kmessinger

    Try this: under Settings in WP, click Permalinks. Change the setting from default to any other one, just below it. Now try to open-up the WP site in DW. See the error message? (Something like DW can’t access dynamic files). It’s my (and many other’s) experience that DW can’t handle anything but the default, “ugly” default permalinks. Some have spent DAYS and even gone so far as to reformat their drive!

    It is also known that “pretty” permalinks are better for many reasons; hence the bothersomeness of DW requiring one setting and my preferring another.

    There is a work-around that I am not 100% positive that it’s the right thing to do:

    Close DW. Open WP and change permalinks to default. Open the site in DW. Now, back in WP, change the permalinks to your preference.

    The reason I ask about the different permalinks is because, naturally, I want them to work…(once they are -and IF they are- carved in stone once actually published).

    I don’t want to make a bunch of links/buttons, several on this page, several on that page, only to later discover that I have to redo the work because there is some issue that me (The Noob) doesn’t know about.

    ??

    I havnt used DW in light years ?? to find page post id’s, change the permalinks in wordpress to default, then go through the pages/posts to find their ID (urls) in the browser addreess bar, if you hard link to those ID (urls) it shouldnt matter what permalink structure you use afterwards as wordpress will redirect to your prefered permalink. the only issue is that if you are developing locally you have to change the urls from from your local site to your live site ?? hope it helps

    Woo – that may help eliminate some surprises as I AM developing locally.

    Do you mean that if I had 50 pages developed locally, and if (for example) each page had a button with a link to another page on the bottom of the page, I’d be looking at changing the 50 involved button’s URLs?

    *scratches head* What about all the other URLs? Is it that after putting it to the remote server, WP can handle changing the page URLs but not the button URLs?

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